Logan's Run all over again

Rating: 7/10 (24 January 2006)

This is not a bad movie, but it is essentially a remake of Logan's run. You have a Utopian setting where life resolves around the Big Lie (the Island here, Carousel Ascension in LR). Couple manage to escape and discover that the "outside world" is not contaminated but inhabited and stumble upon the truth behind the Big Lie - much hardship, chased by menacing foes, overcome hardship, return to Utopia and free the other Utopians into a whole new world. Closing scenes of hope with couple kissing - I swear, it's Logan's Run meets "Spares" (a book by Michael Marshall Smith on cloning). Granted there are some nice twists and the characterization is more developed than in LR. It is a fun movie with some good tension.